Discussion: What spinoff would you create?

[liviapenn.livejournal.com]

Ever since Xena and Buffy broke out and became hits, we have a lot more tv shows with female leads-- and even shows where the main relationships are between women. But there's still a ways to go before there's as many shows starring women as there are men.

So here's my question(s) for discussion:

1) If you could take one female character, who's not the lead of her own show, and *make* a spinoff show where now she actually *is* the lead character, who would it be? And what would the show be about? (For comics, insert "spinoff comic" and for books insert "spinoff book series" here.)

I have a few that I can't choose between:

From Stargate: Atlantis, I would be interested in a spinoff show about Sora, the Genii soldier, being a spy and sneaking around the galaxy blowing up Wraith and collecting intelligence. It would sort of be like Alias in that she could never really trust her superiors, and probably at some point she would go rogue. Teyla would be in the show as her mysterious antagonist that shows up once or twice a season to dispense information, and she can't really be trusted, but they have mad UST together.

From Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I'd watch a show about Tara being a helpful spirit and having adventures on different metaphysical planes of existence, possibly in the past or the future, and helping people and then moving on-- maybe a little like Quantum Leap where she can't control where she goes or what her mission is, and just has to do the best she can.

From Firefly, I would love to watch a "prequel" type tv-movie about Zoe, showing us her childhood, her life in the military, meeting Mal and Wash, and more about how Zoe and Wash fell in love. (Or maybe I just want someone to write that story. *G*)

What about you guys?

Comments

[xenacryst.livejournal.com]

I'd love to see a show about Susan Ivanova and what she did after leaving B5. Especially since she left before the rest of the story we know concluded, there's got to be some interesting things that she's been doing out there somewhere.

Well, we're already getting to see what Sarah Jane Smith is up to, but I'd also like to see some of the backstory from Romana, being another Time Lord and all.

[harriet-spy.livejournal.com]

Romana spinoff, most definitely. Adventures in e-space!

[strangerian.livejournal.com]

The Captain Ivanova show! I wanted to write the novel of it for a while. (Ivanova meets occasional Old Ones, gives them lots of lip, gets lots of headaches, and saves other parts of the galaxy that we don't see on B5 proper. That kind of thing.)

[xenacryst.livejournal.com]

Hee! Indeed. Ivanova giving lip to the Old Ones, of course! And Marcus or Lennier could periodically show up to help (with both the headaches and the giving lip parts, I'm sure).

[cereta.livejournal.com]

Oooooh.

[cereta.livejournal.com]

Also from B5, I want the adventures of Lyta Alexander, after she and G'Kar part ways.

[xenacryst.livejournal.com]

Ooh, yeah. Also, what really happened when she went and hung out with the Vorlons...